South Australian Consolidated Acts

SUMMARY PROCEDURE ACT 1921 - SECT 27

27—Service

        (1)         Subject to the provisions of this or any other enactment specially applicable to the particular case, any summons or notice required or authorised by this Act to be served upon any person may be served upon such person by—

            (a)         delivering the same to him personally; or

            (b)         leaving the same for him at his last or most usual place of abode or of business with some other person, apparently an inmate thereof or employed thereat, and apparently not less than sixteen years of age.

        (2)         Subject to any other provision of this Act, where this Act authorises service of a notice on a party to proceedings by post, service of the notice may be effected by sending the notice by ordinary prepaid post (either alone or with other documents relating to the same proceedings) in an envelope addressed to the party at—

            (a)         the address appearing on the relevant complaint or summons as the address of that party; or

            (b)         where the person by whom the notice is to be given has notice of some more recent address of the party—that address,

and the notice shall be deemed to have been served at the time when it would, in the ordinary course of post, have reached the address to which it was posted.

        (3)         Where a summons or notice is served otherwise than by being delivered personally to the person on whom it is to be served, the Court may require the summons or notice to be re-served if there is reasonable cause to believe that the summons or notice has not come to the notice of the person to be served.